PagineFree The Metamorphosis quizzes with answers: 25 original multiple-choice questions in 8 quizzes, part-by-part, plus a The Metamorphosis summary, characters, themes, essay questions and printable tests with answer keys. Use them as a study guide, a reading check or IB / AP Lit / High school / World revision. Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of alienation; widely read in IB, AP and world-literature courses.
IB English A: LiteratureAP English LiteratureUS High School EnglishWorld Classics
Written in German (Die Verwandlung); English translations differ, so questions describe events rather than quote a translation.
Spoiler-safe reading checks: each quiz only covers its own part, with answers and explanations.
5 questions with answers · spoiler-safe
📘5 questions with answers · spoiler-safe
📘5 questions with answers · spoiler-safe
🏁10 questions with answers · whole novella
Revision quizzes that pull questions from across the whole novella (spoilers).
5 questions · Motives, relationships and how characters change.
💡5 questions · The big ideas and what the writer is saying about them.
🧭9 questions · Quick check of what happens and when.
🏆6 questions · The hardest questions — exam-style thinking.
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Travelling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. Unable to work, he becomes a burden to the family he supported; as they grow stronger, he declines, and his death brings them relief.
AlienationFamilyDutyIdentityWorkTransformationGuiltThe absurd
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George Orwell · 60 questions
Jack London · 45 questions
Charles Dickens · 35 questions
Henrik Ibsen · 25 questions
Mary Shelley · 75 questions
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 55 questions
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Travelling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of alienation; widely read in IB, AP and world-literature courses.
Franz Kafka wrote The Metamorphosis, first published in 1915. It is a novella in 3 parts.
Gregor Samsa, Grete Samsa, Mr Samsa, Mrs Samsa, The chief clerk and The charwoman.
Alienation, Family, Duty, Identity, Work, Transformation, Guilt, The absurd.
Yes. All 25 questions are free, each with the answer and an explanation. Play online with instant feedback, or print any quiz as a test with an answer key.
The part quizzes are spoiler-safe — each one only covers its own part. The final test and the skill quizzes cover the whole novella.
The Metamorphosis is widely studied for IB English A: Literature, AP English Literature, US High School English, World Classics. Reading lists vary by school and exam board, so check your own syllabus.
The Metamorphosis is in the public domain in the US: read it free in Pagine or on Project Gutenberg, or listen on LibriVox.
Yes. Print any The Metamorphosis quiz with an answer key for reading checks, homework or revision, or use “Build your own quiz” to choose parts, skills and difficulty.